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2 Reviews of Beck Diet Books by the American Dietetic Association

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Reviewer Suzanne Farrell, MS, RD praises The Complete Beck Diet for Life for not sugarcoating the time and effort that dieting requires and recognizing that lifestyle changes are a work in progress. Farrell specifically recommends this book to people struggling with weight loss and registered dieticians. To read the review, click here: http://www.eatright.org/Media/content.aspx?id=10412

In her review of The Beck Diet Solution: How to Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person, Lisa Dorfman, MS, RD, LMHC commends Dr. Beck for offering good tools to help readers adopt healthy lifestyles. She also notes that the plan’s requirement that the dieter write down his or her goals and anticipated reactions to specific situations is good for people with difficulties dealing with spontaneous situations. Dorfman specifically recommends this book to yo-yo dieters who have tried countless diets but keep gaining back the weight. To read the review, click here:  http://www.eatright.org/Media/content.aspx?id=10444&terms=Beck+Diet+Solution

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Announcing! The Complete Beck Diet for Life

Friday, December 26th, 2008

New Book: Following her New York Times bestselling Beck Diet Solution, Dr. Judith Beck has released the The Complete Beck Diet for Life.

Watch a Beck Diet for Life success story.

Attend a Beck Diet for Life Workshop in Philadelphia, 9/13/09

Okay, I confess. I’m excited. My latest diet book, The Complete Beck Diet for Life: The Five-Stage Program for Permanent Weight Loss, was just published this week – and many people are surprised. A common question I get is: “But in your first book, you just said to choose any well-balanced, nutritious diet. So why does this new book have a diet in it?”

Here’s the answer. I was wrong. I really thought that dieters would be able to choose an eating plan that was healthy, enjoyable, and sustainable for the long run. But from reading thousands of emails and online support group postings, I found that people were choosing diets that:

  • didn’t satiate their hunger
  • contained too low a level of calories
  • increased their cravings
  • outlawed certain favorite foods altogether
  • weren’t palatable enough
  • allowed them to skip breakfast
  • didn’t allow for snacks
  • couldn’t be sustained beyond a few weeks or months.

    • So I worked with a registered dietician to formalize a plan that I’ve been using with dieters for years. It’s a “choose a protein from this list and a fruit from this list,” kind of eating plan. It’s highly flexible and dieters learn how to modify it so they can stay on it for life and maintain their weight loss. (It also allows you to eat 150 or 200 calories of your favorite foods a day, so you can have a candy bar or chips or a glass of wine every single day.) The new book also contains an elaborated cognitive behavioral program to teach dieters how to diet, how to ease into changing their food intake, how to deal with psychological issues, how to handle cravings, hunger, and emotional eating, and how to motivate oneself daily for life. This time, the program is complete.

    Beck Diet for Life website: www.beckdietforlife.com

    See highlights from Dr. Beck’s book tour: Philadelphia, Atlanta, Houston.

    Read Dr. Judith Beck’s diet blog in Psychology Today.

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    CT Worldwide: First Romanian CBT book!

    Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

    It’s exciting to see Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) spread around the world. New language texts are popping up all the time, and here is the first CBT book written originally in Romanian by Daniel David (previous Romanian texts were either brief introductions or translations). Congratulations Dr. David!

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    Books: The Beck Diet Solution is coming soon…

    Monday, October 16th, 2006

    What does Cognitive Therapy (CT) have to do with dieting? That’s exactly what Judith S. Beck talks about in her new book: The Beck Diet Solution: train your brain to think like a thin person. CT has been effectively applied to a broad range of disorders, including eating disorders, and the same techniques that help people learn to think more realistically, feel better, and change their behavior for other problems can also help them to lose weight. Dr. Beck has written a book for consumers with a truly new approach to dieting. It’s a six-week program that provides step-by-step instructions for using cognitive (thinking) and behavioral skills to lose weight and keep it off permanently. Look for The Beck Diet Solution in April of 2007.

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